Is the end of insulin jabs in sight?. New treatment made from diabetics' skin could 'reboot' the pancreas.
Breakthrough found way of turning skin cells into healthy pancreatic cells
These could replace those damaged in type 1 diabetes, scientists believe
And spell the end to the grind of insulin injections for millions worldwide
A more natural treatment should also cut the odds of developing the disabling and deadly complications of the disease, which range from heart attacks, strokes and blindness to nerve and circulatory damage and amputations.
In diabetes, the body struggles to produce or use insulin, a hormone needed to convert the sugar in food into energy - so new treatments are urgently needed.
The U.S. research capitalises on a technique that allows scientists to use a cocktail of vitamins, genes and other compounds to turn one type of cell into another.
The researchers, from the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco, found the right recipe to turn human skin cells into healthy, fully-functional versions of the pancreatic beta cells that are damaged in diabetes.
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